President Trump wanted everyone to know he wasn’t messing around.
So Trump picked up his phone.
And Trump just gave the one order that America’s enemies fear the most.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
Peace talks between Iran and the United States to end the six-week-old war collapsed after Iran failed to agree to the United States’s terms on ending their pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
Iran’s main leverage point in the war is to drive up oil prices by closing down the Strait of Hormuz.
While Iran closed the Strait, a few ships linked to Iran, China, and India could export oil.
Other nations paid a toll to Iran so their tankers could receive safe passage through the Strait.
President Trump took a massive risk that could drive oil prices higher by announcing that the U.S. Navy would implement a 100$ blockade of traffic in and out of the Strait, meaning not even allies could transmit oil.
So, there you have it, the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not. Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any Ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz.
“At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, ‘There may be a mine out there somewhere,’ that nobody knows about but them,” Trump’s Truth Social post announcing the blockade began.
Trump argued this dramatic step was necessary to end Iran’s ability to extort the world by controlling access to the Strait of Hormuz.
“THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted. I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” Trump added.
Trump went on to say that American naval vessels would begin destroying the mines Iran set in the Strait and warned Iran not to fire on American ships or face lethal consequences.
“We will also begin destroying the mines that the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows better than anyone how to END this situation, which has already devastated its country. Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar are useless, Khomeini, and most of their “Leaders,” are dead, all because of their Nuclear ambition,” Trump continued.
Trump added that other nations would assist America in the blockade and that if Iran tried to escalate in response, the American military was “locked and loaded.”
“The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit from this Illegal Act of EXTORTION. They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. Additionally, at an appropriate moment, we are fully “LOCKED AND LOADED,” and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran! Trump concluded.
Trump believes that blockading the Strait of Hormuz will choke off the oil revenue Iran receives as well as the flow of oil to Iranian patrons India and China.
The President hopes that the combination of Iran losing money and China losing access to oil will compel them to force Iran back to the bargaining table.
